Yeah. I used to be a comedy club rat (similar to a gym rat; I used to frequent the local club, even before I was old enough to get in…I made friends with the staff), and Tim Cavenaugh performed there. I was talking to him after the show, and I told him that I was disappointed that he didn’t do “I Want to Kiss Her.”
He opened up his guitar case, pulled his guitar out, and sang it for just me and my friends.
In the novel Patriot Games Jack Ryan saves the life of an unnamed English royal during London assassination attempt. That royal later visits Ryan at his home with his wife and Ryan saves both of them. The royal is the Prince of Wales and although the names Charles or Diana aren’t written it’s clearly them. In the book surviving the danger they were in brought the couple back together despite the trouble the marriage was in before. The movie wisely replaced Charles with another generic fictional Royal. It came out the year that Charles and Di separated. I read the book after they split but before her death. It definitely affected my enjoyment of the book.
The Tom Clancy novel Debt of Honor has an airline pilot crash a 747 into the Capital Building. The book came out in 1994. Also out in 1994 the Dale Brown novel Storming Heaven has terrorists attempting to fly a plane into the White House. Both of those books feel a lot different after 9/11.
I think you mean “tailor” here. The word “tailer” conjures up images of an entirely different sort, if you get my, uhm, “thrust.” 
A “capital” is a city. The Capitol in Washington is a building.
Also, it’s clear in the novel Patriot Games that Ryan saves Charles, Diana, and their newborn son, even if they aren’t mentioned by name. It’s in the movie adaptation, which came out after Charles and Diana had gone their separate ways, that he rescues a true “unnamed royal.”
Correct, of course.
Still, it’s sexual assault played for laughs. There’s also a scene in the original Ghostbusters where Ray is visited by a female ghost who unzips his pants.
Debt of Honor is basically an instruction manual for how to do it. I always wondered if the 9/11 hijackers read it. I certainly hope there are no terrorists out there who have read his other stuff, particularly The Sum of All Fears.
The Coup’s Party Music: the original cover art, prepared before 9/11, showed them blowing up the World Trade Center with what looked like a detonator/guitar tuner. They used a different cover because “events intervened.”
On the topic of album covers, there’s the Scorpions’ Virgin Killer, which features a frontal nude photo of a 10-year-old girl that probably seemed like a good idea to someone in 1976, but has become extremely problematic as attitudes about the sexualization of children have changed.
In many regions, it has been replaced with this group photo of the band, which I’ve seen described as “four of them are celebrating the fact that they aren’t going to prison, while the second one from the left is being shown the original cover for the first time”.
For me personally the one that comes to mind is the song Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago by Soul Coughing. Although I like the music, especially the intro, I find it hard to digest after 9-11, because the first line of the song is:
A man, drives a plane, into the, Chrysler building
The song was in the movie Tommy Boy (1995) with Chris Farley, so not a completely obscure song even though not that popular, and likely no longer to be included in a movie soundtrack.
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In the West End of London, after the Queen died, someone had to go out on stage before the start of Wicked and say “Tonight’s show will be peformed unchanged.” Then the curtains open and the first line is sung:
Good news, she’s dead!
Whereas “Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead” charted in the UK after the death of Margaret Thatcher.
I’m not sure which album it was from but I’ve always remembered either John or Robert Kennedy clarifying that “I don’t talk like Bugs Bunny - Bugs Bunny talks like me.”
Thank you. My phone’s autocorrect has been chastised.
I don’t know what else you are correcting me on. I said it was clear that they we’re supposed to be Charles and Diana but they are literally (using literal in the most literal way possible) unnamed. Their names never appear in the book. In the movie the royal he saves is fictional but he is named. He is Lord William Holmes, Minister of State for Northern Ireland and cousin of the Queen. He’s a decently close analog to Lord Mountbatten while being fictional.
Teeth of the Tiger is one of Clancy’s weakest books but the terrorist plot seems to be pretty realistic and easier to pull off than what happened in Sum of All Fears. The 2008 Mumbai attacks made me think of the book.
I stand corrected myself. I tried rewriting the post but didn’t have the time to finish. Mea culpa.
I can hear in my mind an impressionist saying that in his act. It may have been David Frye. He did everybody. Brilliantly.
But who knows. RFK might have said it first.
Speaking of the Kennedys, Mad Magazine also ran a Gilbert and Sullivan-themed White House spoof titled “A Day with JFK” in 1961. Following the assassination, it didn’t appear in any reprints or compilations until 30 years later.
Maybe Mel Blanc? 
IIRC, he was once in a coma after an automobile accident, and he could talk only like Bugs Bunny when he started to come out of it.
That’s better than talking like Elmer Fudd or Daffy Duck!
Mel Blanc did not do the voice of Elmer Fudd; it was Arthur Q. Bryan.
Bryan passed away in 1959. I don’t know if Blanc may have done the voice afterward.
